Example sentences of "only [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By fighting for pits to be kept open , the NUM was fighting not only for miners ' jobs but also for the survival of miners ' communities . |
| 2 | I believe that this is absolutely vital , not only for teachers ' sanity , but also for the health of the education system as a whole . |
| 3 | The cacophony within the house seemed to last for several minutes , but was perhaps only of seconds ' duration . |
| 4 | They are probably at ease not only with women 's tears but with a range of private feelings and needs for dependency and intimacy . |
| 5 | 3 Media offences which are triable only in magistrates ' courts . |
| 6 | The IoD 's Peter Morgan adds : ‘ It 's only in companies ' boardrooms that decisions are made or not made , opportunities taken or lost . |
| 7 | The realisation that he was a sinner not only in men 's eyes but in God 's led to his conversion in February 1779 . |
| 8 | British seamen in the US deserted in droves , alarming the new British government and bringing about a revived dialogue not only on seamen 's complaints about the inadequacy of British pay , the constantly recurring problems of loss of wages and effects when torpedoed and the inroad made by railway fares when they were paid off from diverted ships , but also on the dangerous state of mind of seamen who were incensed by the conviction that they were constantly subject to neglect , mishandling and coercion . |
| 9 | This new freedom to travel safely far and wide had a profound effect not only on men 's lives but also on their thoughts and beliefs ; these men who were being uprooted provided ‘ the background to the anxious thoughts of the religious leaders of the late second century ’ . |
| 10 | This distinction had been blurred not only by officers ' participation in the committees but by the Pflimlin government 's delegation of supreme civilian authority to the Commander-in-Chief , General Salan . |